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Smarmie Doofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 05:23 PM
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Anyone else doing "Tax Day - Make Them Pay"?
Edited on Fri Apr-15-11 06:01 PM by Smarmie Doofus
We're doing a Chase in the small town where I grew up. ( My grade school sometime-nemesis is police chief. But my nephew is a local bigshot and should be able to get me out of whatever shenanigans Move-on gets me into.)

Anyway... I hope the Chasers are happy to see us.

Cool idea. No?


>>>>Tax Day: Make Them Pay
The right wing is on the attack: slashing public services, eliminating workers' rights, and destroying jobs. Their excuse? "America is broke"—and yet big corporations and the wealthy are raking it in, and continue to get tax break after tax break. Something doesn't add up.

America is not broke. The right-wing wants to convince us we're broke so that they can push through their radical agenda. And well-connected corporations continue to use their political power to dodge their taxes. In 2009, after helping crash the American economy, Bank of America paid $0 in taxes. GE had a tax bill of $0 in 2010. Republicans want to give a $50 billion tax bailout to big oil companies—and at the same time take away food aid to hungry pregnant women and children. This is immoral and un-American.

Enough is enough! On Tax Day, April 18, as millions of Americans patriotically pay their taxes, we will call on corporations and millionaires to pay their fair share. At hundreds of events from coast to coast, we'll present tax bills to corporate tax dodgers for the billions of dollars their legions of lobbyists helped them avoid. We'll organize a peaceful, dignified, and powerful day of action to call on corporations to pay their fair share. And we'll demand that our elected leaders make them pay.

It's time to demand that everyone pays their fair share to rebuild the American Dream. We invite frustrated taxpayers, underwater homeowners, vilified public servants, job-hunting students, and unemployed veterans—everyone facing cuts or cutbacks, a pink slip or a shrinking paycheck—to join in.>>>>

http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=242
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 05:45 PM
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1. In Wisconsin something like 2/3 of corporations don't pay taxes....
And now Scott Walker wants to impose financial martial law.... I wish our federal agencies would come in and check him into a clinic....
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Smarmie Doofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 06:04 PM
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3. A bit of a jerkaholic, I'd say.
He's got to recognize the problem first for a clinic or rehab to do any good.
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socialist_n_TN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 05:58 PM
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2. We're doing an action at a corporate office of.........
Bank of America here in Nashville on Monday at 3 PM. We're going to try and present a tax "bill" for estimated taxes owed on $4.4 BILLION dollars in profit. Wish us luck and good luck to you.
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Smarmie Doofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 06:05 PM
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4. Check. ( no pun intended.) I'm on the case.
Back at ya'.
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dems_rightnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 06:08 PM
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5. Here are BAC's income statments
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=BAC+Income+Statement&annual

They don't have $4.4 billion of profit. They've lost nearly $6 billion over the last 2 years. OF COURSE they're paying no tax.

GE... different story altogether.
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